Labour / income economics

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism.

The end of the twentieth century saw remarkable changes in the way that economic regulation was viewed.

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad.

This edited volume brings together international and national scholars and major activists leading or spearheading basic income guarantee political initiatives in their respective countries.

The social fund has been a controversial instrument of social policy in the UK since its introduction in 1988.

In recent years, Mediterranean agriculture has experienced important transformations which have led to new forms of labour and production, and in particular to a surge in the recruitment of migrant labour.

The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology provides an extensive and insightful overview of how economic conditions affect human well-being and how human health influences economic outcomes.

Explores the sustainable farming movement through reference to three detailed case studies of organisations operating in rural India.

Migration, Unemployment and Trade focuses on the issues of migration, welfare and unemployment in a trade and development framework.

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

The deep recession and slow recovery of the Canadian economy in the 1980s and the lengthy recession of the early 1990s raised serious questions about economic policy making.

The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between 'ordinary' people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and 'the West'.

Is China becoming the "e;workshop of the world"e; in the same way as Britain and the United States once were; or is China - as some multinational companies believe - simply a processing segment in global production networks?

The health care system in Canada receives a great deal of international attention, but it is subject to considerable critique and debate locally.

News stories on the impact of job loss appear daily in the media.

Originally published in 1992 and now with an updated Preface this book analyses the development of innovations using a network perspective.

Examines inequality in overall distributions of income and expenditure, and disparities across gender, region, caste, race, and access to education.

This book explores a quiet revolution reshaping global capitalism: the rise of employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and profit-sharing enterprises.

Explores the combination of capital''s changing composition and labour''s subjective agency.

First published in 1983, State Policies and Internal Migration presents a comprehensive overview of migration influencing policies and programmes in the developing countries.

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades.

Originally published in 1987, this book focusses on the relationship between higher education and employment and is based on 21 national case studies.

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Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production.

This book, first published in 1982, summarises the history and organisation of the group of co-operatives centred in Mondragon.

Originally published in 1982, this book begins with a wide-ranging and critical review of both first and second generation theories of inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the classical approach to macroeconomics.

More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.

In this book, originally published in 1918, the Leonard S.

This work argues that the successful implementation of a share economy requires some substantial changes in the typical structure of property rights of modern capitalism.

In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded.

This book examines the large-scale return migration of South and Southeast Asian workers triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring its causes, consequences, challenges, and policy responses.

This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization, and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation.

This book provides a concise and accessible history of the relationship between the individual and capitalism in the United States.

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.

The Handbook of U.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.

Children throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work.

Safety at Work and the Unions (1983) surveys the whole field of safety at work.

The call center industry is booming in the Philippines.

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions.

The concept of economic democracy is traditionally identified with workplace democracy and participation at the enterprise level.

How can American unions survive in our increasingly globalized business environment?

Over the last 30 years, Economic Policy has strived to produce policy relevant and rigorous analyses of the economic challenges of the time.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain.

Presenting twenty-two years of multidistrict litigation data, this book exposes a systematic lack of checks and balances in our courts.

Originally published in 1993, this book contains 3 studies from Latin America: Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

Collected from published, archival, and private sources, these letters place the Petworth immigrants in the context of their times and challenge the image of English immigrants to 1830s Upper Canada as officers and gentlewomen.

Labor in the Twentieth Century provides the comparative method of reviewing labor in five advanced democratic countries.